National Health Development Plan 2012-2025.

The National Health Development Plan (NHDP) vision configures health as an primary factor in the country's overall development and social justice, promoting universal access to equal health care, improving the management and financing mechanisms of the National Health System (NHS). It offers quality, timely and humanized services, with a view to combating poverty and strengthening the National well-being. NHDP' objectives are ambitious in all areas of the NHS, including strengthening the fight against transmissible and chronic diseases, mother and child care, improved services, etc. The NHDP is a key management document and an essential integration tool to sustain the NHS in the medium and long term politically, technically and financially. It is presented as the strategic-operational document to materialize the strategic guidelines set out in the "Angola 2025" Long-Term Development Strategy and the National Health Policy, as well as in the priorities of the Executive, transforming them into concrete actions and interventions to be executed during its term.
The NHDP 2012-2025 aims to promote compliance with the right to health enshrined in the Constitution, universal access to health care, improving the management and financing mechanisms of the NHS, providing services of quality, timely and humanized, with a view to combating poverty and strengthening the well-being of the population. The NHDP has been developed on the basis of the following priorities for the sustainable development: Increased life expectancy at birth; Accelerated reduction of maternal, infant and child-to-juvenile mortality; Improvement of the Human Development Index and promotion of the achievement of the Millennium Goals; Consolidation of legislative and organizational reform of the NHS as well as institutional capacity; Health improvement at all levels; Elaboration of strategic plans for the training of technicians and health professionals in the short, medium and long term and distribution of human resources in accordance with the needs and objectives of the Plan; Updating the incentive plan for health professionals; Adoption of new health technologies; Health allocation of adequate and sustainable funding; Efficient and modern management of the resources of the NHS.
The health needs and the current problems facing the NHS are mainly related to: i) insufficient health coverage and poor maintenance of the Health Centre; ii) the weak system of reference and against reference among the three levels of the NHS; iii) human and technical health personnel with limited quantitative and qualitative expression and poor distribution of personnel in rural and peri-urban areas; iv) weaknesses in the Health Management System, including the information, logistics and communication system; v) insufficient financial resources and inadequacy of the financing model; and vi) reduced access to drinking water, sanitation and energy. The Strengths of Angolan Sustainability are: 1. Political Will on the Importance of Nutrition; 2. National Nutrition Programme; 3. National Nutrition Strategy for childhood and the for Food and Nutrition Security; 4. Integrated Municipal Programme for Rural Development and Combating Poverty; 5. National Council for Food and Nutrition Security; 6. Intersectoral coordination and partnership; 7. Sensitized national and international partners; 8. Economic growth of the country.